Improved bedstead-fastening



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' WILLAM gerEvENs,y or EARENTUM,` PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters .Patent No. 97,722, dated December 7, 1869.

^ IMPRQVED BEDs'rEAD-FASTENING.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ci' the ame To all whom it may concern: Y i

lle it known that I', WIL`LIAM STEVENS, of Taren` panying drawings, and to the letters of reference The nature of my invention Iconsists in combining, with the ordinary dovetail lock of a hedstead-fastener, a latch so arranged as to hold the male and female parts together'.

` To enable others skilled inthe art to make anduse my invention, I willproceed to describe its construction. i

In the accompanying'drawings, which form part of my' specification- Figure lrepresents a top View of one ot the posts, and a section of a rail, provided with my improvement in fastener.

Figure 2 is a vertical and longitudinal section of thesame. i

. In the accompanying drawings- The outer end ofthe latch e is hevelled oil', so as to t neatly in' a recess in the male part D of the fastener.

protuberance f on the vO n the front end ofthe male part D is a dovetail projection, i, which, in form and size, corresponds to the dovetailrecess o.

` The male part D of the fastener is provided with two lugs, x, which are used for securing it to the rail B by means of screws J.

` By means of'these lugs the screwsenter the rail at right angles to the libre of thewood, and thereby secure the pait D, so that it is not liable to 'become loose on the rail. i,

lIn vsecuring the parts O and D together, the latch e is' turned to one side, and the projection i is placed in the recess o. The latch is then turned over the pro-v jection i, with its bevelled-off end inserted in the Iecess `in the protuberance j, as shown in iig. 2.

The female partei' the fastener is secured to the The combination of the latch c with the parts C and D of the hedstead-fastener, lthe whole being constructed, arranged, and operating as herein described,

and for the purpose set forth.

WILLIAM STEVENS;

NVitnesses:

JAMES J. JOHNSTON, GEO. G. LAMBEIGHT. 

